University of Maryland College Park Tornado

Video of the F3 tornado that hit the University of Maryland, College Park on September 24, 2001. No audio.

The video is available as a DVD from http://www.harkphoto.com/EasternFury.html

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Science & Technology

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• University of Maryland
• College Park
• tornado

[CosmicFunkOSMOSIS]

That twister was part of the "La Plata" system. Hell, someone even caught it on video as it traveled over the Rayburn Building and sent it to WRC-TV/NBC-4. It looked like a black possum tail as it traveled over DC--

THEN it touched down in College Park. I think someone even caught the pickup with the 2 girls in it on video.

[meggiepossum]

@CosmicFunkOSMOSIS What do you mean "the La Plata system"?

[CosmicFunkOSMOSIS]

@meggiepossum

Same year and same time as the twister that hit La Plata, MD.

[meggiepossum]

@CosmicFunkOSMOSIS The F-3 College Park tornado was September 2001 and was a SW to NE system running nearly parallel to I-95 in Virginia and Maryland, therefore missing La Plata. The La Plata tornado was an F-4 in April of 2002. This system ran west to east, south of Washington D.C.

[GalvaWalken8]

There's almost some kind of sick thrill involved in the terror you feel in these situations.

[Babyqs4]

yep my dumb sister was still in her dorm room when this happened, she didnt even know what was goin on. she said she saw people running but thought it was a fight or a party lol

[GreenmeGo]

So distructive

[highguy9900]

1st Collaborative UMD-US Army Weather Control Device Test: Complete.

[DeidaraAkatsuki135]

i was a 4 year old living in berwyn heights at that time...a glass door that was in front of my front door exploded.

[Gumby1108]

aw hell yeah, triple post for the win

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus.

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus.

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus. That was a crazy September.

[nuknuk623]

girls was in the tornado

[bryantpugh43]

Damn They people are scared. Out of tornado. Shit.